Mike Bloomfield’s Telecaster
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Dan Erlewine first saw this Tele back in the 1960s, before Mike Bloomfield recorded with it on Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited album. That was also before Bloomfield and Dylan were booed for going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. And before Bloomfield recorded the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album with this guitar. There’s a lot of history in this Telecaster!
About the guitar in this video: This is the 1963 Tele that Mike Bloomfield used to record iconic guitar solos with Bob Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1965. It’s been chopped into a lefty configuration! Dan explains in this video…
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What a beautiful, practical and fantastic channel. Thank you.
TenThumbs Productions You are right, it really is, the straight dope no needless chatter.
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Spending 10 minutes listening to Dan talk and you learn SO much.... thanks for sharing Dan!!
*Sir: Thank you for posting this video. Mike Bloomfield is an very important influence in my, and my older brother's life. In fact, during the summer in 1980, my brother called me late at night to say "Hey man, I jammed with Bloomfield" in a club in the San Francisco bay area. We were both shocked when he died and still feel his loss. He was like our older brother. Eugene Trevino.*
Amazing camera shots, and smooth audio. Your camera guy/editor is awesome.
Literally the last place I expected to see you
Definately would like to see a guitar related video from you
Hi Zack! I've watched a lot of your videos but I don't recall you ever mentioning guitar. Do you play?
I expexted spanish inquisition more than You :)
Woah it's Zack! I work as an electronics technician thanks to you. Thank you for your knowledge
This is the very best of UA-cam.
Hi, Danny: Just a friendly comment---in this case, the neck stamp meant: 3=Telecaster, not 3rd of August. If you remember, in 1965 or so, Fender was going to discontinue the Stratocaster due to lack of sales. They developed the Jaguar to take it's place. In any case, in 1966, the neck stamp would have been 1 for Jaguar, I believe 2 for Stratocaster and of course 3 for Telecaster. In today's world, no one would believe that Fender would discontinue the Stratocaster, but that was the plan. I collect old guitar catalogs, and I have a Fender catalog from that doesn't even show the Stratocaster. We all know what happened when Are You Experienced? was released in 1967. Jimi Hendrix pretty much single-handedly saved the Stratocaster, and sales went through the roof. I always enjoy your videos, Dan.
I actually had a fender jaguar. A pretty awful guitar. Not sure what did with it. Probably just gave it away
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Are you saying the Jaguar was not the cat's meow?
@@andypetrovich2155 I’m a little lost. Not sure what i said about the Jaguar. I did own one and could not keep it in tune. I’ve been playing a telecaster which is my pride and joy for a long time now.
As a RPT (registered piano technician), I truly appreciate these well-made videos.
Dan, thank you so very much on this video of one of the Masters of Blues Mike Bloomfield, R.I.P. Mike, This is an Honor to see this guitar and watch you give it a Go-over, Cousin Figel
3:54. DID HE JUST CHIPPED THE ROSEWOOD WITH THAT SHARP INSTRUMENT? Carelessness at the utmost, amazing.
RL R what r u talkin about
It is so interesting to see that photo of Dan playing his 59 Les Paul in 1965. There's so much rock history on this video!
You are a legend brother. I am a drummer, mainly, and I still know how important your work is. Any man trusted to fix Trigger, well enough said.
Actually Trigger, to my knowledge and shown on UA-cam is serviced by Dan’s cousin or nephew, Mark Erlewine in Austin, Texas. I know Mark from when he first moved to Austin and set up shop in 1973. I traded Mark a WWII Sunburst Gibson J-50 ( label on headstock “Only A Gibson is Good Enough” .) I had for a Walker Turner 16” bandsaw he had and I needed, as I was just beginning to build acoustic guitars. In retrospect…..he got the better deal! Lol! Much respect to both Mark and Dan!
Dan, you just get younger looking every video. Add your talents on guitars...I’m speechless.
Wow Dan! Nice to hear all the history of the Tele and about your music history. Thanks for sharing. Thankz
I love how at 3:55 you mark the fretboard! hahaha
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed that!
Dan will one day be as well known as Leo and Les. He IS Stew-Mac far as I'm concerned, and his skill, and innovation are industry standards. Well done Obewan
Fabulous! History and education all rolled into one.
I was a wee lad when I won the Super Session album at a church function. The opening notes of Albert's Shuffle hit be like a freight train and I was hooked. I've been a white boy lost in the blues ever since.
+Bob Virkus
I hear you there! Although I was a fan since the first Butterfield Lp,
Super Session seemed to me to be the best Bloomfield sounded in the studio.
this is facinating.
This guy just makes me want to smile.
This gentleman knows a shitload about guitars. More than you know and I know combined.
Note that G.E Smith felt that the nut had a width of 1 5/8ths as opposed to the conventional 11/16ths. That is verified here at about 5:20 mark. G.E. is a monster, man!
That guitar sold for $45,000 at auction about five months after this video.
probably would've been a lot more if it hadn't been butchered. thats the like a rolling stone guitar
That’s it!?
@@philipdifrancesca It would still go for a few thousand dollars. People love those 60's teles
@@philipdifrancesca bruh that guitar is ugly lol
@@grahamgould2732 I am to OCD to play a beat up looking guitar even if it does sound great. I get upset on my guitar every time I get a scratch on it.
Thanks for taking me down memory lane!
I'm 62, and Bloomfield was one of my favorites in the 60's and up. When one of my groups finally got to the big stage we'd open with the Mike & Al's live version of "the 59th street bridge song". Always loved his clean solid sound.
0.011's are too stiff for my bending style. (How did SRV every play with 0.013's!!). I used .007's in Europe, like Richie Blackmore, 0.008's and finally 0.009's in Texas.
+armstronglance You must bend reaaaaly hard to have to play on such light strings!
They didn't get "booed off the stage". The reception was mixed, they finished their full set to some boos and applause.
I always enjoy your videos Dan, thank you. Nice telecaster, b.t.w. I also enjoy watching you repair guitars, I always learn alot by watching you. I have a copy of your guitar repair manual, its gold to me. Thank You.. again. Much respect.
I can watch these videos for hours, it's amazing to see the skills people have, and shows just why you shouldn't do it yourself.
I saw Mike Bloomfield with, "Super Sessions" at The Fillmore East, I think it was '68.
I was very lucky to see him.
WOW!!!!!!!! So impressive! Thanks Dan!!!!!!!!!!!
Pat Thomas your videos are like Christmas every time..haha,..great!!!
Absolutely fascinating vid.
Thanks so much for giving us this.
As much as I love guitars, I love great stories even more. Thanks for both, Dan!
I'm rarely more fascinated than when a master craftsman takes apart one of these historic instruments to see what made them tick ...Too bad that cutaway on the upper bout was "homemade" by a hobbyist. Kinda heartbreaking. Thanks again Dan.
As historic as the guitar is, seeing that “mod” brings tears to my eyes.
I Agree.. ughhhh
It looks really bad. haha I agree
But it made it iconic and unique, as ugly as it looks.
@@ArielCardona agreed. There’s a certain sort of mojo to it.
And you have to remember when that lefty player (I’m not going to attempt spelling his name in case I get it wrong) got it, it wasn’t “historic” at all. It was just a guitar. So he did what he could to make it play better for him. Can’t really blame him for that.
It sounds great, rock and roll history.
If you are interested, Al Kooper in his autobiography has a different account of what really went down at Newport Festival (he was there and witnessed it firsthand). It’s a fact though that stories get told that aren’t factual but then they get picked up and with repetition it becomes fact to most everyone so I understand. Book is entitled “Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards” by Al Kooper. Thanks for these videos, they are always interesting Don.
The sound that Bloomfield got for the 'Highway 61' sessions is like nothing else I've ever heard before or since. Go back and listen to it and see if you can figure out what he was doing with that Telecaster and his amp. Hellacious, stunning.
Wow!
I've never seen a neck move like that when adjusting the rod. I know it moves and all but that was just a great shot! :)
I love these Stewmac videos!
Reading interviews with Bloomfield is a treat. He was a living link with many of the legendary bluesmen of an earlier generation with whom he had actually played as a young man, when they came through Chicago. He and Paul Butterfield would be the only two white guys in the club. He really knew his stuff. A lot of musicians fall victim to addiction and they are mourned, but when this guy died it was a big, big loss for fans, and also for ethnographers and sociologists of American music. His first hand knowledge of obscure players was unparalleled, as far as I know.
*I miss him very much. I posted my feelings on a webpage and got an encouraging response from his brother. Mike Bloomfield was supremely talented and a mentor. May he Rest In Peace.*
I know absolutely nothing about guitars and was fascinated by this video.
Ditto
Dan’s probably the most knowledgeable and so interesting.
That is the guitar that rocked my world in 1967 when I first heard the PBBB album. I remember the instant that my friend dropped the needle and I heard "Shake Your Money Maker"... That was the flash point for me and now I am a died in the wool blues fanatic. Go type [ Maso's Blues ] and [ Blues For Suzanne ] in "Search" to see and hear me play. Dawn Peterson, the wife of Dylan's private pilot has ( or had...) Bob's sunburst Strat with the flat wound strings and there is a detailed documentary on it here on UA-cam, confirmed. Those two guitars should be together and on display at the Smithsonian... eh...?!
wow a real piece of musical history
Mike still owned the guitar until at least the fall of '67, he used this telecaster and a '59 Les Paul at the Monterey pop festival with Electric Flag.
Wow, what a history lesson!
3:53 DAN YOU SCRATCHED THE GUITAR!!!
so, he stabbed the fretboard of an irreplaceable instrument... big deal!
it's just a white mark in the fretboard gunk lol.
He diced it up!
I saw a t-shirt recently that said “old guy rule” I think it’s true!
He cuts the fretboard at 3m54s ua-cam.com/video/W5oCY-1dnso/v-deo.htmlm54s
5:08 The first number on the stamp is not the day off the month, it denotes the style of neck.
very informative.i hope there's a lot more videos like this another time.thumbs up!
Wow! That was fascinating! Thanks!
I've always hated telecasters, the body style seemed like it was missing something. I've tried to like them I just couldn't until now, that crazy cutaway that most of you people are probably holding back vomit over is really awesome in my opinion. I think I might back up a squire telecaster and throw in some different pickups as I never like those on the originals either. Just my opinion, but I think the cutaway is cool.
Great video! Funny that first PB is my latest "new record" Awesome licks, much neater licks than "east west" which gets more of a Rap.
Fascinating vid. Not only the history and insight into the changes and parts, but the respect Mr. Erlewine shows for the guitar. And the subtle tips for those guitar players watching, too. Some of the stuff we already learn through trial and error, could be avoided by paying attention to his tips (removing frets, careful with shims under the neck heel, etc.). Thanks for posting this.
you can see this guitar in a peter fonda movie from the sixties played by john Neuse along with graham parsons in the international submarine band...enjoy!!!
That Tele looks like a Lead II with the upper bout cut off. I kinda dig it.
Too bad it got all chopped up. Bloomfield was in Butterfield's band at Newport, not later as Dan states, although he was hired away from another Chicago band because the producer thought he was needed.
Seems like $1 million is on the high side. Dylan's Newport Strat "only" sold for $965K.
That guitar sold since this video was posted. Last I heard it went for somewhere in the $60K range, but I'm not entirely sure as I saw a couple conflicting reports online. But it seems that is was nowhere close to $1M.
Highway 61 revisited, could be quite possibly, the best album ever.
***** Hey what are you doing here ? I would go with you on the album. Or maybe the White album ? Are you a guitar player ? Ciao.
AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible Yeah. I play a bit.
AsFewFalseThingsAsPossible - just passing by.. still wondering if Bloomfield played lead guitar on Desolation Row. Greil Marcus had him pegged for it, then changed his mind in favour of Charlie McCoy.. Clinton Heylin agrees; but I don't know. Everyone's happy to credit Bloomfield with a south-of-the-border touch in Tom Thumb's Blues but not in Desolation Row. Still haven't heard Charlie play like that on record..
David Upham i think its charlie. Another thing to note is that according to a Bloomefield interview about highway 61 recordings he went and bought a new guitar for the occassion so it wouldnt be this one. But who really knows
Kevin Borchers yeah, not even Bob Johnston could settle it, we're all getting old - thanks for your reply. Recommend the Like a Rolling Stone instrumental track that Bloomfield claimed to have rescued from the session.. if you haven't heard it.
Nice guitar, Dan, and I always love your videos. Gotta say, though, that I highly doubt that thing would sell for more than a million bucks. Maybe you were just saying that off the cuff. I agree that it's a historical guitar, but chopping the upper bout off and replacing all the electronics destroyed a lot of the value, despite the Dylan/Bloomfield connection. Also, the "3" in the neck stamp isn't the day of the month - it's Fender's code for what type of neck it is.
Great story about that guitar . This cat really knows his guitars.
Amazing when he said it would sell for over a million too,. And that home made cutaway has no bearing on its value , but increased it I'm guessing? Interesting . Does anybody have stew Mac pickups on their guitars? How do they compare with vintage 68' tele pickups? I bet they sound great?
Great video. Too bad that cutaway, in the guitar, happened. You said the guy traded for the tele. So why not just trade for a left handed guitar or a strat, instead of fucking with cutting out the tele? Bizarre
Because back then left handed guitars were rare and probably expensive. Why did Hendrix play a right handed Strat (and a million other right handed guitars)? Why did Paul McCartney play a right handed bass?
The Tele was just a guitar back then, the guy was just making it playable. It wasn't a collector's item or rare, it was the tool of his trade. He just modified it so it would work for him. Nothing "bizarre" about it.
@@Vichedges I think it is bizarre. Am I not allowed my opinion?
@@edwardssistershands What's bizarre about a player making a guitar playable?
And interesting your comment has a like after being up for 30 seconds.
I wonder who liked it lol?
@@Vichedges I disagree with you and that is okay. I am empowering you to move on.
@Edward's Sisters'Hands
Hey look, "somebody" liked your comment already.
I guess that's your thing?
Any other man talking and I would have cried at that cutaway
So cool,..thank you
Dan was the guitar player in The Prime Movers!! Iggy Pop on drums. Wonderful video, I could watch this all day. He's talking about John Neuse from International Submarine Band I think. Thanks for this....
excellent
I played this very guitar. It was owned by John Nuese (pronounced New-EASE) who was the lead guitarist in the International Submarine Band, the late Gram Parsons' band before Gram joined The Byrds in 1968. (Plug: check out the BBC TV movie, now on DVD, called Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel.) I worked on this BBC film and already knew John Nuese from my membership in the Long Ryders, a band John liked and he came to see us play in NYC a couple of times. John was a good guy and told me the following when we were in Nashville filming him for this Gram movie.
The ISB were friends with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band back when Mike Bloomfield was their primary guitarist, Elvin Bishop was the second lead guitarist if you will. Later on in the Electric Flag, Bloomfield's next band, they were chums with the Flying Burrito Brothers, the band Gram had with ex-Byrd Chris Hillman. All these guys jammed and I remember Hillman telling me the Electric Flag guys were incredible virtuoso at blues and R&B but really struggled with C&W music, something Hillman found kinda interesting.
In Nashville we interviewed John Nuese for the Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel film. At some point John went to the closet and got out the Tele shown above in this video clip. I remember it well as John was left-handed and he cutaway the bit missing above so he could play it left-handed. I was astonished to hear it was Bloomfield's guitar, the very one from Like A Rolling Stone, backing Dylan at Newport in 1965, and the first Butterfield Blues Band album...not sure if this instrument was on their second LP, East-West, or not.
Nuese let me play it and explained how he got the guitar from Bloomfield, I think it was a trade but my memory fails me here as it was fifteen years ago and I just don't remember exactly. John confirmed he had it modified so he could play it left-handed. The cut to the body was ghastly, it really made the guitar ugly. I played the guitar but not through an amp, only into the open air of John's home in Nashville and I remember it buzzing, it needed a fret job badly. I don't think John was still a serious, serious player back in 2003 but I know he did play a bit while in Nashville. But what a thrill for me to play the very guitar Bloomfield used to wail on From A Buick 6 and Highway 61 Revisited to say nothing of this playing on the first Butterfield Blues Band album.
One more thing: this guitar sold for only $45,000 not long ago but it was probably played, at some point, by all of the four following names; Mike Bloomfield, John Nuese, Gram Parsons, and Bob Dylan. Throw in Elvin Bishop and Al Kooper too? Think about that, wow.
Don't forget G. E. Smith also played it for a video showcasing this guitar
I’ve never played guitar in my life. However, as a fellow craftsman, his attention to detail; as well as his clear, concise explanations; keep me coming back. New favourite UA-cam channel.
Always fun to watch Dan's work, he is a master. But pretty certain he is incorrect on one point here. The "3AUG63B" stamp decodes as:
3 (Telecaster) - August 1963 - B (standard Tele nut width = 1 5/8")
Every Telecaster of the era will have a neck code beginning with the number 3, as it is the model code, not the day of the month. Another interesting thing: In 30 years of guitar buying, selling, and repairing, I have never seen a Tele without the final character "B" ... as custom nut widths (A = 1 1/2", C = 1 3/4", and even D = 1 7/8") were not offered on Telecasters. I suppose one could be out there ... but it would be as rare as hen's teeth!
I’m a bicycle geek. To prevent seizing where metal meets metal like on the truss rod, I clean out the parts and then grease them with a synthetic grease from Shimano. Even if I never cleaned and regreased it again, it would be good for decades to come in all sorts of weather.
Thanks mate
I love this mans passion for the instrument
3:53 Did they pay you to relic it as well?
ouncy He never touched it
I can see a scratch line that he left? So I'm guessing he did.
crekk- you're right, I'd bin it now if it was mine tbh
Hahaha, for some reason I like the battered look of a telecaster, just makes it seem so much cooler. That must just be me though.
crekk- no I definitely agree with you. I'd have bother living with that bit cut out of this one though!
man, don't be poking guitars with an exacto knife....especially historical ones!
Crazy
freshcaughtbass Did he actually touch it with it?
yeah, you can see the scratch
Dan singing/playing Dillon at the end was worth a million bucks too! Loved that!
who's Dillon ?
what a soothing voice and a great way to spend my lonely weekend watching ur vids.
One correction regarding the neck date code of "3AUG63B" - it wasn't made on August 3rd, 1963 - the "3" represents the model designation for Telecaster. Cheers!
He is so full of knowledge I really enjoy all Stewmac vids but especially his.
Gotta say, double cut body tele looks pretty good, shame about the way they butchered this one though
This is the guitar you see Bloomfield with on the back of the first Paul Butterfield
Blues Band album, which, along with Eric Clapton on John Mayall's "Beano"
album and BB King's "Live At The Regal" is one of the most influential guitar
sounds of all time. Robben Ford's '60 Telecaster has that sound. As much as
the maple board tele's are worshipped, these 60's teles w/ rosewood boards have
a sound of their own and are great for rock and blues - just ask Jimmy Page and
and he'll agree! They're not as thin sounding as the maple board axes, a bit more
dark but still with plenty of twang when you adjust your amp a bit. Bloomfield
was an amazing player and he got the most from that tele and a Twin Reverb.
Dan Erlewine did Albert King's guitars and built Albert a custom V so you know
he's telling it like it is. Very well respected and rightly so.
I would restored that guitar back to original putting back that chunk of wood .. would be a fun project .. make it look right again ..
I agree 100% with this. Dan would be THE guy to properly restore this guitar the right way. In another video he went to a lot of trouble to refret the guitar, so why not do it right?
Yeah, and I would repaint the Mona Lisa.
Definitely wouldn't refinish the entire body, Dan is just so good at patchinged and matching!
Thanks a lot for showing this! Bloomfield (and Roy Buchanan) has always been some of my Top Telecaster players, and I love Mike's Tele tone on the first PBBB album as much as I love his "Super Session" Burst tone. Dan seems like a really great guy, and I'm very glad he did this video!
excellent video, Many thanks for sharing this! "Highway 61 revisited" gave me fond memories of Johnny Winter's version..... on "Johnny winter Captured live!" REAL rock-n-roll!
R.I.P. JW
Does anyone know what happened to the original set of 1963 pickups that Mike Bloomfield used when he owned the guitar , since they were replaced with a pair of 1968 pickups that Mike didn't use during his tele years??
yeah somebody knew about 40 years ago , for about 6 months.
This guys voice could comfort Morgan Freeman
Everything about these videos make me stoked to be alive and a guitar builder, collector, and player. Dan is one of my heroes.
here's a video of that axe in action with Mike ua-cam.com/video/KRWgtYtrrj8/v-deo.html
Pretty cool guitar, and nice to see it up close! I'm wondering, is that 2nd smaller capacitor on the volume pot a treble bleed? Would that have been original?
3:54 he scratches the fretboard :-)
I'm just as interested in Dan's shop as I am everything that he has to say.... the man is a wealth of knowledge. What is that pad on top of the bench? Looks to thick to be carpet or carpet padding, and its definitely not leather.... anyone?
Wow- That Tele sounded great played loud unplugged!
According to wikipedia, bloomfield traded his gold top to dan in 1967
Now I want a Telecaster so I can make it a double cut
James Hetfield was born on August 3rd 1963!!!
Dan's the man.
Others have pointed it out, but I have to say it too… using a razor knife as a pointer on such a rare, one of a kind instrument is a bit reckless. I’ve watched several of your videos in the past, though it’s been a while so I don’t recall if that is a common practice of yours. I’m only seeing this one now because I recently got a Telecaster and have been watching a lot of videos on them and this one got recommended to me. I greatly respect your knowledge and expertise, but maybe put away the razor pointer.
Dan what guitar tuners do you recommend for my les Paul 60 tribute ...I like to keep those nice yellow /green tuner stones if possible... if I can’t just nickel locking tuner ...any suggestions...ron t
Awesome evaluation Dan. However, you make me cringe swinging around the Exacto. Even scratching the fingerboard once or twice. 03:54
Cyberdactyl if you notice,there's a huge chip in the fretboard right beside that 001" of an inch micro scratch he created that will dissapear immediately when its played once.the huge chip in the fret board however will be there forever.
trillriff-axegrinder There's no excuse for scratching someone's guitar while using an X-Acto knife as a pointer. It's negligent, regardless of any preexisting damage nearby.
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the scratch lol
Cyberdactyl he does not actually touch the wood , i watched it a few times
Cyberdactyl yea more then once. i cringed too. but that just upped the price 100,000 ;-)
Could probably try making your own wedge for that spacer that sits in the neck joint. Taylor has a built in mechanism for adjusting the angle of the neck with spacers with these precise little wedge spacers that actually lock into place. If you had the proper hardware you could probably make a similar spacer of your own to fit that specific guitar.
It was made the day before I was born
Jesus Christ, this guy's good!
Good analysis, Dan. However, anyone that knows anything about Bloomfield knows that he played .011's or possibly even .012's or even .013's whenever he he played "live" in his concerts and things. In the studio he prefered .011's or possibly .010's for the high E string on his electrics. This is why the guy that acquired this Tele had trouble probably getting good action without buzzing on the neck and frets: simply because he was using very light gauge strings (.008's or .009's)! Bloomfield used fairly heavy gauge strings, even though he was known for his string bending.
A lot of interesting history, but the stuff about "folkies" at Newport on the fateful night (July 25, 1965) rejecting the electric Dylan is total crap. Crap.
Dylan had recorded a half-electric album (Bringing it all Back Home) that spring, so lots of people were into the electric Dylan. Plus, "Like a Rolling Stone" had been released about a week before Dylan appeared at the festival, and the amazing song had been getting played hugely on the hip New York (etc.) stations.
So lots of young people at Newport were ready and wanted the electric Dylan.
They booed because his set was extremely short, and the sound was terrible.
John Nuese, the same one that formed The International Submarine Band with Gram Parsons? What an important guitar as far as the history of rock & roll!
See my comments at the top, Dave. It is the very same John Nuese (pronounced New-EASE.)